Top 250 TV shows, as rated by IMDB members. List updated daily.
General documentary series and informational TV shows.
As of 3/3/2024
The following is a list of series from 1950-2023. Series within were in the top ten of both Trakt’s Popular & Trakt’s All Time Watched in each of their respective years. The exception to that sole guideline above was the years 1950-1955, where the top ten were cross reference as a group as opposed to individual years.
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Documentaries I have watched or plan watching. Reflects my personal taste.
I like documentaries about the history and technology of wars the main emphasis on WWII. Other huge interests of mine are cars, aviation and technology in general.
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A collection of history, science, and tech programs (work in progress)
TV Shows
A list of documentary series based on info from docuwiki. There's bound to be some series that may not belong or may have matched incorrectly.
In 2014, Sight & Sound polled 340 documentary critics, curators, academics and filmmakers asking for top 10 documentary lists. Over 1000 films got votes, from years as early as 1892 to as recent as 2013. This list is the combined critics and filmmakers list of all films that received 3 or more votes.
Source: http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/greatest-docs
No Channel Listed Documentaries
The BFI TV 100 is a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre to have been screened.
Documentary
Documentaries films and series.
Scrapped rarbg TV Seasons with one or more season packs.
IMDB: Top Rated TV Shows
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